Smartphones And Mobiles
This is our selection of Christmas apps, covering everything from holiday music to greeting cards. While these apps are not delivered by Santa and his reindeer, they are a festive addition to your iPhone or iPod touch this holiday season. Here are our picks for the best Christmas apps.
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Smartphones And Mobiles
Best Christmas Apps for iPhone & iPad
This is our selection of Christmas apps, covering everything from holiday music to greeting cards. While these apps are not delivered by Santa and his reindeer, they are a festive addition to your iPhone or iPod touch this holiday season. Here are our picks for the best Christmas apps.
1. Cards
Tired of sending completely cheesy holiday cards? This free app from Apple can help you send stylish, custom cards instead. Use pre-built templates and photos from your iPhone to create your own cards and then address them using the contacts in your address. For $2.99 each, the cards will then be printed and mailed using high-quality paper stock and letterpress printing. These are holiday cards people will look forward to getting.2. Dr. Seuss Camera - The Grinch Edition
The Grinch Edition of the Dr. Seuss Camera (US$1.99) is an adorable Christmas app for kids or anyone who could use some extra holiday spirit. It includes 20 ?Grinchmas? cards that you can personalize with your own photos -- and who doesn't want a picture of themselves dressed as the Grinch? The cards can be emailed to friends or saved to the app?s photo library. If you?re only going to download one Christmas app this season, make it this one.3. Salvation Army Christmas Music
Proceeds from The Salvation Army Christmas Music app ($2.99) go to -- you guessed it -- the Salvation Army. The app includes a variety of holiday music stations, including classic Christmas songs, Christmas hymns, oldies, and children?s songs. You can?t select specific songs to play, but you can skip songs within each station.4. The Christmas List
If you are overwhelmed with holiday shopping each year, the Christmas List app ($0.99) is for you. It?s a full-featured list app with email support, address book integration, and plenty of sortable categories. I especially like that it tracks your spending so you don?t exceed your gift budget. And the app is password-protected to hide your list from prying eyes.5. Santa's Christmas Village
Santa?s Christmas Village (Free) includes more than 13 games with fun holiday themes. It?s got solitaire, checkers, hangman, minesweeper, and more. Twenty holiday songs are also included. Even if you?re not a big game fan, Santa?s Christmas Village is a perfect kids app for keeping them entertained during the holidays.6. Christmas Radio
The Christmas Radio app ($2.99) won me over with its festive interface and collection of more than 31,000 radio stations. The app is based on SHOUTcast radio, so you can search the stations by keyword and save your favorites for quick access later. Music can be streamed over EDGE, 3G or Wi-Fi, but you?ll want to stick to 3G or Wi-Fi for the best experience.7. Christmas!!
If holiday anticipation is killing you, the Christmas!! app (Free) will keep you sane until the big day arrives. The app includes a Christmas countdown, advent calendar, and a small collection of holiday songs. An in-app gift list will also help you keep track of your holiday purchases. The content in this Christmas app won't be unlocked until December 1, but you can use it year after year.8. Christmas Sudoku
Even Sudoku apps are getting into the holiday spirit. Christmas Sudoku ($1.99) has three modes of gameplay -- easy, medium, and hard -- and 30 levels within each mode, so you won?t be bored with this one for a while. You can play the traditional game with numbers or spice things up with Christmas icons, in addition to playing with friends over Bluetooth.9. Good Food Festive Recipes
The BBC?s Good Food Festive Recipes app ($2.99) includes more than 100 holiday recipes with step-by-step instructions and photos for each dish. Vegetarian recipes are clearly identified, and the built-in turkey timer will certainly come in handy over the holidays. The app also includes a helpful tips section where you can master basic kitchen techniques.- Jonathan Adler Designs A Collection For Moto X Pure Edition And Shares His Holiday Gifting Tips
This holiday season, Motorola has something for every style lover on your list, including an all new Moto X Pure collection designed by the iconic Jonathan Adler. The limited-edition collection features three eye-catching, stylish phones that Jonathan...
- 'twas The Night Before Moto Xmas
?Twas the night before Christmas, and I, home alone. Sat typing texts on my outdated phone. After sending the last, I folded it closed. Then laid my head down for a holiday doze. As I lay sleeping, a sound in the distance. I rushed to the door to offer...
- A Very Moto Holiday Playlist
Happy holidays from the Motorola family! However you choose to celebrate the holiday season this year, what we love is being able to celebrate in a way that fits you. We know that many of you use your phones to listen to music, and so in the spirit of...
- 8 Nifty Ways To Get Into The Holiday Spirit With Your Phone
You can admit it: You?re someone who loves everything about the holiday season. Christmas. Chanukah. Kwanzaa. All of it. You can?t get enough of the most wonderful time of the year. Holiday lovers, we?ve got you: no matter which holiday you celebrate,...
- The Download: Making One's Voice Heard Is Not As Easy As It Sounds
For a long time, touchless voice control was considered the holy grail of mobile devices. We knew it would make the experience on our phones irresistible?for our users driving in the car, cooking in the kitchen, glued to the TV watching that last episode...